76 Miscellaneom. 



Hab. Stomach of a Penguin from the Antarctic Seas. Collected 

 during the late Antarctic expedition, Brit. Mus. 



5. T^NIA FALCIFORMIS. 



Taenia falciformis, Baird, Cat. Entoz. Brit. Mus. 116. 



Head conical ; proboscis unarmed ? ; suckers large, oval-shaped ; 

 no neck ; body at anterior extremity very narrow, almost linear, 

 gradually enlarging as it descends ; articulations very numerous, 

 extremely narrow. The body is flat and is curved like a sickle. 



Genital orifices ? Length about 2\ inches, breadth at broadest 



part 1 line. 



Hab. ? Collected during the Euphrates expedition. Brit. 



Mus. 



Genus Bothriocephalus. 



1. Bothriocephalus antarcticus. 



Bothriocephalus antarcticus, Baird, Cat. Entoz. Brit. Mus. 90. 



Head conical, elongated, smooth, with two lateral opposite fossettes. 

 At the lower margin of each fossette there are two small rounded 

 projecting lobes. Body rovmded; from the neck some way downwards 

 it is quite round or cylindrical, and the articulations are very 

 numerous and very small, appearing like mere ridges across. Lower 

 down, the body becomes flatter and the joints larger and more deve- 

 loped ; lower margin thin. An impressed line runs along the centre 

 of the body through its whole length. Length about 9 inches, 

 greatest breadth of body about 3 lines. 



Hab. In the stomach and intestines of a Seal caught about and 

 within the Antarctic Circle. Collected during the late Antarctic 

 Expedition. Brit. Mus. 



MISCELLANEOUS. 



Note on the Reproduction q/^Ligula. By M. Brulle. 



M. Brulle has made a communication to the Academy of Sciences 

 of Paris, stating that he has found a new mode of reproduction to 

 prevail in a species of Ligula, which infested the Bleak {Cijprinus 

 alburnus) in the Canal of Burgundy, in great numbers during the 

 past summer. The Ligulce have generally been regarded as Cestoid 

 worms which passed a first, asexual stage of development in the 

 interior of the bodies of freshwater fishes, and only acquired repro- 

 ductive organs when they reached the intestines of birds. According 

 to M. BruUe's statement, it appears that the Ligulce, contrary to the 

 generally received opinion, are capable of producing living, Cerca- 

 riform young whilst still parasitic upon fishes ; he saw one of these 

 worms which he had just extracted from the body of a Bleak, pro- 

 duce two or three yoimg ones, which, he adds, " resembled the 

 parent, except that the anterior portion of their body was broader 

 and thicker than the opposite extremity. They may be compared, 



